From: Cristian Secarã (orice@secarica.ro)
Date: Fri Jul 23 2004 - 13:42:55 CDT
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:38:36 -0400, Alain LaBonté wrote:
> The concept of group and group selection [...] was taken into
> consideration by ISO with the intent to extend it to multiple
> groups. However the multiple group model, if it exists, has not
> been standarized yet and deployed fully in its modalities, but
> time may have come for this.
For my national Romanian keyboard standard, I have defined two further
concepts, somewhat inspired by MS Windows OS:
- keyboard language; a system can have more than one language defined
for a keyboard, to suit a particular need for local ethnic communities
- character arrangement; a given keyboard language can have as many
character arrangements as needed, to suit a particular need [mainly
professional, but not limited to]; each character arrangement consist
of one ore more group, each group defined in traditional ISO/IEC 9995-x
way
For the Romanian keyboard standard case, there is only one language
defined, Romanian.
For the Romanian keyboard standard case, there are now two "character
arrangements": number one (the main one), called "Romanian" and number
two, called "Romanian (Programmers)".
I defined 4 groups, each with 2 levels.
Then:
- character arrangement one is group 1 + group 3 (plain & shift + AltGr
& shiftAltGr).
- character arrangement two is group 4 + group 5 (plain & shift + AltGr
& shiftAltGr).
I kept group 2 reserved for strictly implementations of ISO/IEC 9995-3
... (and unused in my actual case)
> For this we must rely on international
> standarization, not on the will of only one individual
Well, I hope that my original implementation does not harm much the
international standardization :)
Cristi
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